I'm still chipping away at John Piper's book "Desiring God." For such a joy-seeking title and pursuit, it's a dense and academic read. However, it's also thought-provoking and convicting.
A prayer for today:
Lord,
I long to feel sufficient desire for You,
to thirst for Your presence,
to crave membership in the audience of Your throne room, joined with the ecstatic throngs who revel in praising You.
Yet here I sit in my daily life:
No crisis of health or finance or parenting or career. No anxieties gnawing at my heart.
The leisure to perform my duties at a less-than-frantic pace, to plan my day with a cup of tea beside me and fuzzy slippers on my feet.
I am comfortable.
But this is not joy.
Once again, I have settled for a cup of lukewarm tea instead of craving Your promised feast, Your Living Water. I have settled for a brief hiatus from suffering and conflict: sufficient health, sufficient happiness, sufficient peace. Temporary "okay-ness".
Once again, I have set my sights too low.
Teach me to set my heart on You and You alone:
my Treasure, my Goal, my Feast.
Teach me to settle for nothing less than You.
Keep me discontented with life's little pleasures to remind me of Your eternal pleasures: A life with You. Real joy.
I will run with perseverance the race marked out for me. I will fix my eyes on You, the Author of my salvation, my Prize, my Treasure.
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